STORY- born on july 24, 1897 in kansas went missing july 2, 1937 supposed to land on Howland Island plane-electra
THEORIES- crashed and died ran out of fuel low on fuel and became a castaway on Nikumarorothen died crashed into the pacific ocean 24 hours after leaving Lae, New Guinea flying Earhart's Lockheed Electra on a 2,556-mile (4,113-kilometer) route from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland on the third-to-last leg of an around-the-world equatorial flight. From there they were scheduled to go on to Hawaii and then California. pair died as castaways on Nikumaroro captured while on a secret mission to the Japanese-controlled Marshall Islands crashed near Howland-experts are sure this is the place of the crashSouth Pacific - It has been determined that the plane went down some 35-100 miles from Howland Island. TIGHAR's(The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery)investigation into this theory has uncovered accounts of a plane wreck there before 1939 and reports of two castaways, a man and a woman who fit descriptions of Earhart and Noonan, on the island of Nikumaroro, which was formerly known as Gardner Island taken by japanese to saipan A World War II-era movie called Flight for Freedom (1943) starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray furthered a myth that Earhart was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Franklin Roosevelt administration.[139] By 1949 both the United Press and U.S. Army Intelligence had concluded these rumors were groundless. Jackie Cochran, a pioneer aviatrix and one of Earhart's friends, made a postwar search of numerous files in Japan and was convinced the Japanese were not involved in Earhart's disappearance.[140] -Amelia was on a spy mission authorized by President Roosevelt and was captured. -She purposely dove her plane into the Pacific -She was captured by the Japanese and forced to broadcast to American GI's as "Tokyo Rose" during WWII -She lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman -In 1961 it was thought that the bones of Amelia and Noonan had been found on Saipan, but they turned out to be those of Saipan natives. -The TV series Star Trek "Voyager" had an episode in which Earhart (and Fred Noonan) had been kidnapped and placed on a planet many light years away and worshiped as one of the "37s," a group of 20th Century humans who were placed in suspended animation on the planet. Through a series of misunderstandings or errors (the details of which are still controversial), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation wasn't successful. Fred Noonan had earlier written about problems affecting the accuracy of radio direction finding in navigation.[100] Some sources have noted Earhart's apparent lack of understanding of her Bendix direction finding loop antenna, which at the time was very new technology. Another cited cause of possible confusion was that the USCG cutter Itascaand Earhart planned their communication schedule using time systems set a half hour apart (with Earhart using Greenwich Civil Time (GCT) and the Itasca under a Naval time zone designation system).[101] reports from the Electra seemed to indicate it never received a strong enough signal to make that possible
PEOPLE INVOLVED- fred noonan(second navigator) amelia earhart Harry Manning Paul Mantz Irene Bolam Captain Harry Manning Clarence Williams
THEORY: Amelia Earhart was flying to the Marshall Islands as part of a secret mission by the american government to see if the japanese had weapons. she was supposed to fly to Howland, and used her around-the-world flight as a cover for her mission. The japanese took her hostage, and she came back to America as Irene Bolam.
STORY-
born on july 24, 1897 in kansas
went missing july 2, 1937
supposed to land on Howland Island
plane-electra
THEORIES-
crashed and died
ran out of fuel
low on fuel and became a castaway on Nikumarorothen died
crashed into the pacific ocean 24 hours after leaving Lae, New Guinea
flying Earhart's Lockheed Electra on a 2,556-mile (4,113-kilometer) route from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland on the third-to-last leg of an around-the-world equatorial flight. From there they were scheduled to go on to Hawaii and then California.
pair died as castaways on Nikumaroro
captured while on a secret mission to the Japanese-controlled Marshall Islands
crashed near Howland-experts are sure this is the place of the crashSouth Pacific - It has been determined that the plane went down some 35-100 miles from Howland Island.
TIGHAR's(The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery)investigation into this theory has uncovered accounts of a plane wreck there before 1939 and reports of two castaways, a man and a woman who fit descriptions of Earhart and Noonan, on the island of Nikumaroro, which was formerly known as Gardner Island
taken by japanese to saipan
A World War II-era movie called Flight for Freedom (1943) starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray furthered a myth that Earhart was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Franklin Roosevelt administration.[139] By 1949 both the United Press and U.S. Army Intelligence had concluded these rumors were groundless. Jackie Cochran, a pioneer aviatrix and one of Earhart's friends, made a postwar search of numerous files in Japan and was convinced the Japanese were not involved in Earhart's disappearance.[140]
-Amelia was on a spy mission authorized by President Roosevelt and was captured.
-She purposely dove her plane into the Pacific
-She was captured by the Japanese and forced to broadcast to American GI's as "Tokyo Rose" during WWII
-She lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman
-In 1961 it was thought that the bones of Amelia and Noonan had been found on Saipan, but they turned out to be those of Saipan natives.
-The TV series Star Trek "Voyager" had an episode in which Earhart (and Fred Noonan) had been kidnapped and placed on a planet many light years away and worshiped as one of the "37s," a group of 20th Century humans who were placed in suspended animation on the planet.
Through a series of misunderstandings or errors (the details of which are still controversial), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation wasn't successful. Fred Noonan had earlier written about problems affecting the accuracy of radio direction finding in navigation.[100] Some sources have noted Earhart's apparent lack of understanding of her Bendix direction finding loop antenna, which at the time was very new technology. Another cited cause of possible confusion was that the USCG cutter Itascaand Earhart planned their communication schedule using time systems set a half hour apart (with Earhart using Greenwich Civil Time (GCT) and the Itasca under a Naval time zone designation system).[101]
reports from the Electra seemed to indicate it never received a strong enough signal to make that possible
PEOPLE INVOLVED-
fred noonan(second navigator)
amelia earhart
Harry Manning
Paul Mantz
Irene Bolam
Captain Harry Manning
Clarence Williams
http://www.timmissartok.com/bushpilotlinks/bpAmeliaEarhart.html
THEORY:
Amelia Earhart was flying to the Marshall Islands as part of a secret mission by the american government to see if the japanese had weapons. she was supposed to fly to Howland, and used her around-the-world flight as a cover for her mission. The japanese took her hostage, and she came back to America as Irene Bolam.
http://etherpad.com/amelia